We conduct beauty contest experiments, using close to 2,000 subjects to study the facial traits of CEOs. In one experiment we use pairs of photographs and find that subjects rate CEO faces as appearing more “competent” and less “likable” than non-CEO faces. Another experiment matches CEOs from large firms against CEOs from smaller firms and finds large-firm CEOs look more competent and likable....

BACKGROUND Low back pain in pregnancy is common and research evidence on the response to chiropractic treatment is limited. The purposes of this study are 1) to report outcomes in pregnant patients receiving chiropractic treatment; 2) to compare outcomes from subgroups; 3) to assess predictors of outcome. METHODS Pregnant patients with low back or pelvic pain, no contraindications to manipula...

Sir, A 60‐year‐old Japanese man with a 30‐year history of psoriasis vulgaris was referred to our hospital. His previous treatments, including topical corticosteroids, Vitamin D analogs, narrowband ultraviolet B, and cyclosporine, demonstrated poor disease control. At his first visit, he presented with scaly erythematous plaques on his trunk, extremities, and scalp, with considerable itching. At...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to use the pain numeric rating scale (NRS) to evaluate associations between change in pain severity and changes in sleep, function, and mood assessed via patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in patients with posttraumatic pain. METHODS This is a secondary analysis of a clinical trial evaluating pregabalin in patients with posttraumatic peripheral neuropat...

INTRODUCTION DepoFoam bupivacaine is a novel liposomal formulation of bupivacaine designed to provide prolonged postsurgical analgesia. This dose-ranging study evaluated extent and duration of analgesia following administration of DepoFoam bupivacaine in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS Efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetics of DepoFoam bupivacaine doses of 133, 266,...

the purpose of the study is to show in which trimester of pregnancy is fatigue more common among working women, and whether or not there is any relationship between fatigue rate and educational level, income, etc. this is a longitudinal study. from the total number of patients who came to zeinab university hospital, 100 completed a demographics 50 item questionnaire and the numerical rating sca...

BACKGROUND In palliative care, administration of opioids is often indispensable for pain treatment. Pain assessment may help recognize pain and guide treatment in non-communicative patients. In the Netherlands the Rotterdam Elderly Pain Observation Scale (REPOS) is recommended to this aim, but not yet validated. Therefore the objective of this study was to validate the REPOS in non-communicativ...

Fatigue is a common problem in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and many factors are responsible for its etiology. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the current status fatigue evaluate related by using Bristol Multidimensional Questionnaire (BRAF-MDQ) Numerical Rating Scale (BRAF-NRS) developed specifically RA patients with RA. 64 were included study. Disease Activity Score (DAS...

OBJECTIVES To develop a composite measure pain scale tool to assess acute pain in cats and derive an intervention score. METHODS To develop the prototype composite measure pain scale-feline, words describing painful cats were collected, grouped into behavioural categories and ranked. To assess prototype validity two observers independently assigned composite measure pain scale-feline and nume...